First-aid case



G. A. MEYER FIRST AID CASE May 14, 1929.

Filed March 2, 1927 I 71 1/6 507: Gaf e/1 Meyer Patented May 14, 1929.

IUNITEDISTATESI GEORG annancn'r MEYER, or rorsnm, GERMANY.

FIRST-AID CASE.

Application filed March 2, 1927, Serial No. 172,153, and in Germany March 10, 1926.

General views on first aid have, of course, spread throughout such wide circles that everyone is clear as to the necessity of applying first aid as quickly as possible, and owing to the greatly increased motor traflic and the corresponding increase in the number of accidents', there is an ever growing desire in motoring circles for first aid appliances commensurate with these conditions. In this connection, people have hitherto contented themselves with the thought that numerous ambulance stations have been established in very large towns, and that there are in medium and small towns sufficient hospitals to be found at no great distance in the event of an accident. Moreover, they say that there are doctors everywhere to whom one can apply in case of need.

It may, however, be pointed out that doctors are very often not to be found at home in the daytime and, in many instances, they do not keep an adequate stock of the appliances needed for first aid. Further, there is now so much motoring round the country that the place where a motor accident occurs is not infrequently remote from a town.

These circumstances have aroused in motoring circles a growing desire for an adequate first aid appliance, ready for immediate use, which can be directly attached to any motor vehicle in such a position as to minimize the risk of its destruction in the event of an accident.

Hitherto the requirements indicated have been met to some extent by the manufacturers of surgical appliances placing at the disposal of the motoring world the ordinary first aid boxes that have been known and distributed for several decades.

Similar conditions exist in the domain of tramway and railway traffic.

Now, according to the invention, all the appliances that can be needed in the event of an accident are enclosed in a removable liner made in one or more parts and contained in a dustproof case, said liner being preferably of such shape that it can itself be used as an appliance, for example, as a splintfor an arm or leg.

The closing means for the case itself may be a labyrinthine packing composed of one or more strips of flexible material.

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated, by way of example, on the accompanying drawing to which reference will now be made.

Fig. 1 shows the liner.

F Fig. 2 is a section along the line C-D of Fig. 3 is a section on the line A-B of Fig. 2. I

Fig. 4 is a partial longitudinal section.

The case a, which may be of any convenient cross section and is adapted to be closed at one or both ends, is provided accordingly with one or two lids b. In order to make the case perfectly dustproof, the closable partthereof or each such part is provided with one or more strips 0 of fabric, rubber, leather or the like, to form a labyrinthine seal. Fig. 4, for example, shows a wide strip a of velvet, over which the cap I) is slipped. V

The several articles e forming the contents of the first aid case, and corresponding in number and character to the articles or appliances that experience has shown to be needed for first aid in accidents, are secured, by means of tapes e (Fig. 3) within a basket-like liner d, which is arranged so as to be easily extracted from the case. Said liner may be made of any convenient material, such as wire netting, and may have the external shape represented in Fig. 1, in which' case it may serve as a leg splint. This splint may be in a single piece, or it may be composed of several telescopic parts, the requisite rigid connection between the individual parts being established by means of fillets d. Moreover, the foot support al may be hinged.

Instead of making the liner of netting, it may be composed of separate splints, in such a way that the assembled splints may serve as leg splints or be used separately as arm splints.

'I claim 1. In a first aid case, the combination of a container, a removable liner in the same comprising a trough-like splint with first aid appliances packed in said liner.

2. In a first aid case the combination of a dust excluding container comprising a body and a telescopic stopper therefor, a. labyrinthine packing on one of said telescoping parts, adapted to fit frictionally with respect to the other, and a removable liner in said container in which suitable first aid applito the other, andaremovable liner in said conances are packed. tainer in Which suitable first aid appliances 3. In a first aid-case the combination of are packed, said liner'comprising a trough- 10 a dust excluding container comprising a body like splint. v I 5 and a' telescopic stopper therefor, a laby- V intestimony whereof I have signed my rinthine packing on one of said telescoping name to this specification. parts, adapted tofit'friction'allywith respect 'G'EORG "ALBRECHT MEYER. 

